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On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.
Shaun White
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Shaun White
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: September 3
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Shaun Roger White
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I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.
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I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
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Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.
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It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.
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